Spring 2027

Intermediate Composition

Intermediate Composition course focusing on persuasive writing, rhetorical analysis of expository prose, and the relationship between writing and speaking in scholarly and public contexts.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Lindsay Jacoby3.4/5

Summary

1 / 6

Past student reviews · Mari Lewis

The review did not provide specific details about workload or difficulty, rating the course as moderately difficult.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Situate the practice and use of rhetoric, writing, and/or literacy in social, historical, political, material, and personal circumstances.

  • Leverage writing as a mode of learning and means of conveying critical analysis.

  • Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs.

  • Use reliable research sources; apply the writing process to develop ideas into papers, presentations, or projects; follow discipline-specific conventions for organization and formatting; and share work in writing and at least one other relevant mode of communication.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Satisfied Communications A and sophomore standing

  • Satisfied Communications A and sophomore standing
ENGL 201

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  • Satisfied Communications A and sophomore standing

Professors

Spring 2027
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About this rating

Raw average: 2.67/5 from 6 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 3.14 GPA, 66.7% A/AB (n=18 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

LINDSAY JACOBY is recorded teaching in Fall 2024. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MARI LEWIS is recorded teaching in Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2024, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 190
LEC 004Classroom Instruction0 / 190
LEC 005Classroom Instruction0 / 190
LEC 006Classroom Instruction0 / 190
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 190
LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 190
LEC 008Classroom Instruction0 / 190
LEC 007Classroom Instruction0 / 190
LEC 009Classroom Instruction0 / 00
LEC 010Classroom Instruction0 / 00

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Mari Lewis

Students found Mari Lewis to be a great instructor who made the class interesting despite a potentially boring subject.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.85 GPA, 92.4% A/AB (n=131 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.88 GPA, 96.0% A/AB (n=126 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.92 GPA, 97.5% A/AB (n=161 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Mari Lewis

The review did not provide specific details about workload or difficulty, rating the course as moderately difficult.

Past student reviews · Mari Lewis

The student recommended Mari Lewis for writing classes, noting her efforts to make the material engaging.

Topics

  • Persuasive writing modes, styles, and genres
  • Scholarly and public writing contexts
  • Relation between writing and speaking
  • Rhetorical analysis of expository prose

Skills

  • Persuasive writing in various modes, styles, and genres
  • Rhetorical analysis of expository prose
  • Research, writing process application, and discipline-specific formatting

Grades

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.05 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
ENGL 201 · Spring 2027

Intermediate Composition

Recorded 2026-10-29
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Grade history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-29

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
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Full model traces

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Model & dataset provenance 
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